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As you may know Juan Williams has recently been under fire for his comments during an interview on Fox News. He said "when I am on a plane and I see people in Muslim garb, I get nervous. I get worried." Three days later, NPR let him go saying that the views he expressed were not those of NPR. When this interview occurred he was not on NPR, he was on Fox. He was there not as an NPR representative, but as a political analyst.
At the same time MSNBC's Chris Matthews said "I mean it isn't far from what we saw in the 30's, where all of a sudden political parties started showing up on uniform. He compared Republican voters to Nazis.
Juan Williams got fired for expressing his honest opinion and nothing happened to Chris Mathews. So I ask you, Should Juan Williams have gotten fired?
I was flipping through channels on my TV and I saw the Teen Choice Music Awards 2010. It was just sad.
I was watching it and I was disgusted by what I heard. Not once did I hear anything by Beethoven or Bach or Duke Elligton or Benny Goodman or Mozart etc. No tributes to real musicians or real music. Nothing. What I heard was noise.
These so called musicians have no talent. They can't sing an opera or play a concerto. The only reason people like them is because they have a pretty face and tons of cash.
In the news, we hear more and more about hackers targeting government agencies and private companies.
"Take any piece of computer hardware. It has probably been assembled in one country, but the components have probably been made in a couple dozen- Taiwan, India, China, US, Germany etc. The software has been written by thousands of people in many countries. it's soo easy to slip a trap door in millions of lines of code, which allows people to get in without authorization.
The US and it's allies are building cutting-edge new fighters. There's good reason that a foreign government, probably China hacked into the manufacturing company for the aircraft and downloaded all the plans. A Potential enemy knows its strengths and weaknesses. imagine sometime in the future where that new plane is flying into a combat zone and the enemy sends up a much less capable plane that can send out a signal that causes our plane's software to go kaput and make the plane crash. Most of today's planes are software. Commercial airliners to military fighters.
Our government is pretty good at offense and can probably hack its way into almost anything. But we don't have a good defense. Right now the government is only defending itself and that's mostly military defending military. Obama's attitude seems to be if you're a bank or a railroad or a pipeline or a power company, you should defend yourselves. Imagine in the 60's we told GM or US Steel that the Soviets had bombers that could reach your companies so you should go out and buy some SAMs. Companies want to minimize government involvement because they don't want the government telling them how to structure their information technology systems. At the same time when you tell them that foreign governments could be hacking into their company they say 'why aren't the feds stopping that, I pay my taxes.
It's inevitable that there will be a larger government role than there currently is.
When Russia cyber-attacked Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008, people said it was a wake up call. When the Chinese attacked Google, people said that was a wake up call. Are we ever going to wake up before it's too late?
Source: Richard A Clarke, Discover Magazine
The global market for manufactured goods using nanomaterials will hit $1.6 trillion by 2013. With every issue there are pros and cons.
Dozens of states dump them into groundwater for getting rid of solvents, heavy metals and petroleum. Many companies are dumping nanoparticles into hundreds of products for brighter colors, richer flavors and less spoilage. Researchers at Yale have created plastic nanospheres that encapsulate proteins called cytokines, which stimulate the body's T-cells. An injection of those spheres could help fight disease and infection. Researchers can use nanoparticles to control the spin of a single electron. this will hopefully lead to powerful quantum computers and more complex integrated circuits on silicon chips.
Many effects of nanoparticals are unknown on humans. Studies show that nanoparticals can work their way into the bloodstream, penetrate cells and get past the blood-brain barrier. They can cause lung, brain and reproductive damage.
Source: Discover Magazine